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Have you ever seen people on wikiHow with nice, customized signatures and want one for yourself? It's fairly easy to make these signatures. All you need to know is a bit of beginner HTML and/or wiki markup.

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Steps

1

Ensure you're logged in to your wikiHow account. You won't be able to perform these steps if you aren't logged in to wikiHow.

2

Create a user subpage. This can be done by adding something like /Sign, /Sig, or /Signature right after User:YOUR-USERNAME-HERE in the address bar of your browser. Example: https://www.wikihow.com/User:wikiHowLuva822/Signature

You can also click this quick link, which will instantly take you to your "/Signature" subpage.

3

Write all of your signature code into your subpage and publish it. See wikiHow:Use Advanced Wiki Syntax for text formatting wikimarkup code. Here are a few codes:

Community Q&A

Tips

You can also copy the code you want for your signature directly into the box on the Preferences page, eliminating the need for the signature page. However, a signature page is neater and you can see all the text and code at once, making modifications easier.

You can look at the code of signatures of others to get an idea of how to build your signature.

The wikiHow software automatically adds a code to your template that will force it to show the code, rather than the template. It looks like this: {{SUBST:User:Your-Username}}. This is completely fine, and doesn't affect your signature's contents.

You can also ask another user experienced with these codes to help you.

Warnings

Using a "nickname" (the name for signing things) which is different from your "real name" (the name showing up on articles) is discouraged.

Article Info

wikiHow is a wiki similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are written collaboratively. To create this article, 18 people, some anonymous, worked to edit and improve it over time. This article has also been viewed 8,690 times.